Joan Steinau Lester
1) Mama's Child
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A stunning tale about the deeply entrenched conflicts between a white mother and her biracial daughter. Mama' s Child is story of an idealistic young white woman who travelled to the American South as a civil rights worker, fell in love with an African American man, and started a family in San Francisco, where the more liberal city embraced them— except when it didn' t. They raise a son and daughter, but the tensions surrounding them have a negative...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Twenty miles from Oakland, California, where fires have led to racial tension, multi-racial fifteen-year-old Nina faces the bigotry of long-time friends, her parents' divorce, and her brother's misbehavior, while learning of her great-great grandmother Sarah's escape from slavery.